Toddler's death remains a mystery

Toddler's death remains a mystery

RIVER CITY Utah (ABC 4 Utah) - An autopsy did not reveal any clues as to how a two year old's died.

RIVER CITY Utah (ABC 4 Utah) – The cause of a two year olds death still baffles investigators.Wednesday, Cache County sheriff deputies responded to welfare check at a home in River City which neighbors Logan.

“When deputies got out here, out to the apartment they found the child had been deceased inside the apartment,” says Lt. Chad Jensen of the Cache County sheriff’s office.

Police don’t know how long baby Eli had been dead. Police were called by hospital officials to do a check on the toddler after his mother, Heidi Rutchey checked herself into the hospital.

An autopsy Thursday didn’t offer investigators any new insights into the toddler’s death.

“Right now it's an undetermined caused of death that's the biggest questions all of us still have,” says Lt. Jensen. “(There’s) nothing obvious that would have caused the child's death.”

Neighbors last saw the two year old with his mother on Labor Day. By Wednesday he was dead.